Chambana

91 in Champaign

90 in the paign, with a chance again tomorrow. Unbelievable for October 12th.

Top tier stuff, night time temps have been delicious. Definitely nice to get a break on the power bill.

Fall is coming folks.

Hottest days of the year potentially as a heat dome moves north, first month of met fall and a raging record breaking El Niño. Discuss.

How is it almost September?!

Late August/Early September is the most pleasant time of year weather wise. It’s goated.

Mom’s house was struck by lightning over the weekend, on top of flood damage she received throughout the week from the onslaught of rain. Lightning fried her fridge, washer/dryer, generator, caught the shed on fire, and struck her well pump and ruined it. Multiple water rescues throughout C IL as well, 8-12” of rain has caused major problems here. Idk how folks deal with this yearly in hurricane zones.

Nope, right on time. Wonder if the 20” of rain this summer has done something

Usually by now the corn is starting to dry out and turn brown, this year? It’s bright green and looks like middle July, just an interesting observation.

Under another flash flood watch starting at midnight for another round of 1-2” of rainfall. Truly one of the craziest summers I have seen.

Substantial flooding. Just north of Champaign in Rantoul there was a bullseye of 10.5” of rain. My rain gauge had 7.5”, this on the heels of a tornado that swept through Tuesday, quite the August pattern.

Sirens going off

Another 1-3” of rain tomorrow and another round of severe, we are getting waterlogged. 6” have fallen here in two weeks. From drought to overflowing river banks, Mother Nature is always in control.

About the extent of the event here. 3-4” reports here locally with rain still falling.